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Minutes of the Lexington Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) Meeting March 11, 2014 Location and Time: Town Office Building, Parker Room (G15), 8:00 .. AM Members Present: Jill Hai, ChairDavid Kanter, Vice-Chair; Bill Hurley; Wendy Manz ; Member Absent: Beth Masterman Others Present: None Documents Presented: Notice of Public Meeting/Agenda for CEC Meeting, March 11, 2014 Draft #4 CEC Report to 2014 Annual Town Meeting (ATM) & March 24, 2014, Special Town Meeting (STM) (distributed electronically very early yesterday) Draft Minutes of the CEC Meeting, March 4, 2014 (distributed electronically March 5, 2014) Call to Order: Ms. Hai called the meeting to order at 8:10 .. AM Continued Discussion of the Fiscal Years 2015Ã2019 Capital Program considering the FY2015 Recommended Budget and Financing Plan (the ÅBrown Book) including any later information on Specific Projects Mr. Kanter provided the Committee with information on what happened at the Board of SelectmenÈs meeting the previous evening with regard to matters affecting the content of the CommitteeÈs report to the upcoming Town Meetings and the CommitteeÈs operations. Those included: The Board voted to approve the Lexington Housing Assistance Board (LexHAB) proposal for the affordable housing, at what had been the Busa Farm property purchased by the Town, being two buildings, each with 3 units. The Ad hoc Community Center Advisory Committee made a presentation regarding (primarily) the recommended enhanced heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system to be included in the Phase 1 build-out of the property purchased by the Town off Marrett Road for a Community Center. That was followed by a presentation by Mr. Addelson, Assistant Town Manager for Finance, of his financial model that shows that the Community Preservation Fund can accommodate that project along with the others currently contemplated. The Board then voted to support the recommended built-out. The Board also approved its Remote Participation Policy thereby enabling, but not requiring, the Chair of any Town board, committee, or commission to allow that manner of participation; however, one of many State requirements is that there must still be a quorum present at the posted meeting location. Continued Discussion of the CommitteeÈs Report to the 2014 ATM and the accompanying March 24, 2014, STM Mr. Kanter led the Committee through the Draft #4 of that report. As all the members had general agreement with the text and approach of that draft, the discussion focused on Mr. KanterÈs embedded Comments in which he had identified where he believed additional Page 1 of 2